Hi Bob

> I don't know what the request pattern from filebench looks like but it seems 
> like your ZEUS RAM devices are not keeping up or
> else many requests are bypassing the ZEUS RAM devices.
> 
> Note that very large synchronous writes will bypass your ZEUS RAM device and 
> go directly to a log in the main store.  Small (<=
> 128K) writes should directly benefit from the dedicated zil device.
> 
> Find a copy of zilstat.ksh and run it while filebench is running in order to 
> understand more about what is going on.
> 
> Bob

The pattern looks like:

   N-Bytes  N-Bytes/s N-Max-Rate    B-Bytes  B-Bytes/s B-Max-Rate    ops  <=4kB 
4-32kB >=32kB
   9588656    9588656    9588656   88399872   88399872   88399872     90      0 
     0     90
   6662280    6662280    6662280   87031808   87031808   87031808     83      0 
     0     83
   6366728    6366728    6366728   72790016   72790016   72790016     79      0 
     0     79
   6316352    6316352    6316352   83886080   83886080   83886080     80      0 
     0     80
   6687616    6687616    6687616   84594688   84594688   84594688     92      0 
     0     92
   4909048    4909048    4909048   69238784   69238784   69238784     73      0 
     0     73
   6605280    6605280    6605280   81924096   81924096   81924096     79      0 
     0     79
   6895336    6895336    6895336   81625088   81625088   81625088     85      0 
     0     85
   6532128    6532128    6532128   87486464   87486464   87486464     90      0 
     0     90
   6925136    6925136    6925136   86118400   86118400   86118400     83      0 
     0     83

So does it look good, bad or ugly ;)

Thomas
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